From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 07:28:08 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.
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Document that mkfifo and mknod -m no longer set special bits.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 4a1d4139b7..ed2ff9643e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS                                    -*- outline -*-
   if your locale settings appear to be messed up.  This change
   attempts to have the default be the best of both worlds.
 
+  mkfifo and mknod no longer set special mode bits (setuid, setgid,
+  and sticky) with the -m option.
+
   sort now reports incompatible options (e.g., -i and -n) rather than
   silently ignoring one of them.